C-U Blogfidential

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Would you believe, two locally-produced features premiering in a two-week span? Kimberly Conner will debut her feature JUMP IN at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in downtown Springfield, IL, at 7 p.m. tonight, Saturday, March 2, 2013.

Directors, producers, lend us your films! We want to see the best hours, minutes, and seconds of local movie-making you have to offer the fourth annual New Art Film Festival, coming to the Art Theater Co-op of Champaign, IL, on Friday, April 12, 2013!

Who will win? Who will lose? Who cares?!? Just watch the Oscars with the ones you love. This has been a public service message from C-U Blogfidential.

Investigate the entomological tonight, Saturday, February 23, 2013, when the annual Insect Fear Film Festival presented by the University of Illinois EGSA welcomes Chris Carter, Darin Morgan, and a pair of X-FILES into the fold.

Time to brave those elements, dearest readers! Locally produced feature SCARY NORMAL engages the C-U for the first time at the Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, IL, at both 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. tonight, Thursday, February 21, 2013.

A week of filmy wonders descends upon Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding area beginning Sunday, February 17, 2013, when INFECTION from HD Productions of Champaign invades the Art Theater Co-op. Shamble in early, shamble in often!

Have you missed out on the Cory McAbee magic so far? You can rectify that situation tonight at 7:30 p.m. when the Champaign-Urbana Film Society brings his sweet lo-fi fable CRAZY & THIEF to the Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, IL.

Anticipating the arrival tomorrow of the one and only Cory McAbee (STINGRAY SAM, CRAZY & THIEF), we provide a preview of his Champaign-Urbana Film Society organized visit and present a vintage appreciation of THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT direct from the MICRO-FILM vault.

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s NEW all-purpose column, “The C-U Film Leader,” we talk about the SCARY NORMAL premiere, a Mike Boedicker profile, Richard J. Leskosky thoughts on film in C-U, and the new QuantumCat Animation ‘blog!

We want YOU to provide the cinematic BOO in the C-U tonight! Read on to find out how right here on C-U Ghoulfidential!

Think you’re in the home stretch of Champaign-Urbana cinema happenings for the fall, gang? Not by a long shot! Witness Thursday, November 1, 2012, which is the last day you can register for Illini Film & Video’s 49-hour-long filmmaking challenge this weekend *and* the first day you can reserve Roger Ebert’s Film Festival passes!

We have news for you, dearest readers. All of your favorite fall-time film happenings are going to happen RIGHT NOW. Well, almost. You’ll want to read on for the details about … are you ready? … the Freeky Creek Short Film Festival, the Drunken Zombie Film Festival, the Embarrass Valley Film Festival, the Route 66 International Film Festival, and the Central Illinois Film Expo & Trade Show. Seriously.

C-U Confidential teams up with Psychic Joker Entertainment to present the not-so-lost retro movie gems of today and yesteryear with “The Time Traveling Cinema” at SoDo Theatre in Champaign, Illinois! On October 26, 2012, misunderstood forces and ancient religions take the stage in WHITE ZOMBIE starring Bela Lugosi and HAXAN narrated by William S. Burroughs!

If you’re in the market for unique pop culture goodies that you won’t find through MegaOnLineMerchants or a HumungousBoxStore near you, we’ll have you covered at the next C-U Flea swap meet at Parasol on Saturday, October 20, 2012, starting at 12 p.m.!